Why Millions Of Americans Might Be About To Ditch City Living

The Federalist ^ | July 7, 2020 | Christos A. Makridis

[RayChuang88]

If I were investing in suburban shopping malls, there is the potential to make a huge financial killing since the revival of suburbs could also mean the revival of shopping malls.

[brownsfan]

Coming to the burbs to screw it up with their progressive ideals. This will only accelerate our decline.

[SmokingJoe]

500,000 have already left New York City. Some for good. If they simply move upstate, that will not affect the presidential elections that much. Hopefully.

[Mr. Rabbit]

Who with a brain wants to spend 3x or more for a smaller, dumpier “home”, or pay exorbitant rent with nothing to show for it? And then to worry about having it all burned down while you and your family are robbed, raped, and murdered because the usual class of Democrap perpetually aggrieved crybabies decide to have another diaper flinging tantrum / shopping spree because they’re butt-hurt about yet something else this week. Nope. City life sucks.

[rlmorel]

The Left is attacking everything, on all fronts, almost as if it were the last gasp of a dying man with unfinished dreams.

Check out this article from The National Review:Biden and Dems Are Set to Abolish the Suburbs

Leftists just HATE it that normal people don't want to live in the city. They think it is better than sliced bread, and can't understand the stupid people who don't want to live that life.

[umgud]

Ditto what you said!

[rlmorel]

I don’t know...I think it is just as likely that suburban shopping malls are going to become harassment and kill zones.

For people of all color.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Unfortunately these days people who leave NYC move to Florida, not the Catskills.

[all the best]

Let’s see how the cities survive after the exodus of the productive and payers of taxes.

[Starboard]

I live in the suburbs of a large city at the moment but am actively planning to leave for good. There are plenty of far more pleasant places to live without all the crime, high taxes, congestion, corrupt politicians and liberal neighbors. They can have the mess that’s encroaching on them.

[SmokingJoe]

Some companies, such as Twitter and Square, have already made commitments to transition their employees permanently into working from home.
Of course, not every county has high-speed internet, and not every individual has a computer.

Starlink from SpaceX will fix all that in just a few months. Starlink will help hasten the departure from big, crime ridden cities lije New York City and Chicago.

[ConservativeMind]

Reliable high speed Internet available everywhere would allow technology-tied income earners to move to the countryside.

My wife and I would move if we had that. We only like to visit towns and cities—not live in them.

[SmokingJoe]

Lived in New York City for 15 years. But then for the most part the police were allowed to arrest criminals and stop mobs from destroying private property. There were 20 straight years of Republican mayors (Giuliani 8 years then Bloomberg 12 years).
DeBlasio was the first Democrat mayor in 20 years and predictably everything went to hell in next to no time.

[Buckeye McFrog]

If I were investing in suburban shopping malls, there is the potential to make a huge financial killing since the revival of suburbs could also mean the revival of shopping malls.

No offense, but apparently you have not been paying attention to trends in the retail industry. Malls are deader than deader than dead. Victims largely of a move to online shopping, which this pandemic has only served to accelerate.

(trying to do you a favor....please, DON'T invest your money there!!)

[pepsi_junkie]

Lefties are incapable of learning. Their politics made their cities unlivable so they move to a new uncorrupted area and corrupt it with their politics, ruining it too.

[M. Thatcher]

Unfortunately these days people who leave NYC move to Florida, not the Catskills.

That’s the conventional wisdom but according to Florida’s governor more non-liberals are moving to Florida than libs.

Escaping the blue states.

[dfwgator]

“We don’t give a shit how you did it in the City.”

[RayChuang88]

I didn’t say it was going to work, given the dominance of online shopping, especially Amazon with its massive distribution system (including its own package lockers).

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The well off people that had been flocking to the cities in the past few decades are mostly liberals or leftists.

Now they are heading to the burbs which will soon become liberal and leftist bastions as well.

If Obama's AFFH ever gets fully implemented then the only sane places will be in the middle of the desert or on mountain tops.